Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
Philipp Hofmann @philipphofmann.bsky.social Historian | Religion, slavery, and landownership in early modern Angola | Postdoc at International Studies Group, University of the Free State
Torsten Weber @torweber.bsky.social Historian in Tokyo 🇯🇵 Japan-China relations • Pan-Asianism • memory politics & historical memory • 'Embracing Asia in China & Japan' http://palgrave.com/book/9783319651538 • research website http://rabediaries.hypotheses.org • #scicom ⚽️ M05❤️🤍
Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
Buddhist Digital Resource Center @buddhistarchive.bsky.social The Buddhist Digital Resource Center preserves Buddhist literature for the world. Using state-of-the art technology, BDRC is the leading digital archive of Buddhist texts, working with local partners to provide free access for the global community. bdrc.io
Institute of Buddhist Studies @ibsofficial.bsky.social A leader in American Buddhist education, IBS prepares students to effectively apply Buddhist teachings to inspire personal and collective transformation, inform compassionate healing and care, and create meaningful social impact.
Paul Hackett @paulghackett.bsky.social Linguist and Translator of Buddhist texts.
ISTB University of Vienna, Austria @istb-univienna.bsky.social The Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde), University of Vienna.
Leigh Miller, PhD @leighmiller.bsky.social Hello. Professor of Contemporary Buddhism and Spiritual Care at Maitripa College; mama of two cherished teens; Believer in Portland, Oregon; occasional Chaplain; more or less good enough dharma practitioner. 
Frederick Ranallo-Higgins @fmr-h.bsky.social UCLA-ALC PhD | Senior Editor, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review https://tricycle.org/author/franallohiggins/
buddhism, occult, philosophy, religion, science, language, art, music, and other nonsense 🇺🇸🇰🇷
Henry Wu @henrywuau.bsky.social ｳｰ ﾍﾝﾘｰ PhD student at ICPBS 国際仏教学大学院大学 Tokyo, originally from Australia. Working on Buddhist translations and commentaries between India and China esp. Kumārajīva. 鳩摩羅什を中心に、印中にまたがる翻訳文献や注釈書を研究しています。
Bruno M. Shirley @brunomshirley.com Historian of Buddhism, political thought, and gender in medieval Sri Lanka. Kiwi in Heidelberg. Big fan of nice maps.
He/Er/ඔහු/அவர்
Bernat Font @bernatfont.bsky.social PhD in Buddhist Studies, dharma teacher & jazz musician. Based in Chiang Mai.
www.dharma.cat
Sandra Raponi @sraponi.bsky.social Philosophy professor, JD, PhD.
Political & legal philosophy, global justice, international human rights law.
Working on human rights-based climate litigation, right to food & water, refugees, online speech.
Zen Buddhism, pottery, piano.
Jessica Locke @jesslockephd.bsky.social Philosophy, Buddhism, Baltimore. PhD at Emory, Associate Prof of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland
Mareike Wulff @mareikewulff.bsky.social social-& cultural anthropologist / ethnographer / bhutan & himalayan studies / buddhist studies / endangered languages documentation / material culture/ visual anthropology / uni of sydney/
https://sydney.academia.edu/MareikeWulff
Kerry Lucinda Brown, PhD @kerrylucinda.bsky.social Specialist in South Asian & Himalayan art (Nepalese and Buddhist visual culture), promoting engagement with global art histories through innovative teaching and research. Associate Chair, Art History, SCAD - Savannah. https://bio.site/KerryLucindaBrown
Nicola Bianco @nicolabi.bsky.social Cultural Anthropology, Buddhology, Japan, Linguistics, Media, Folklore, Western Alps, Autism
Paul Fuller @buddhismviews.bsky.social Lecturer in Buddhist Studies in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
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OTANI Yuka / 大谷 由香 🍄🕊️ @yukao1218.bsky.social I ♥ 仏教学
Matthaeus Tomasevici 🥨 馬太 @covrig.bsky.social Historian of Chinese religions
Religion, philosophy, West Europe, East Asia and everything in between. Mostly dad jokes, bad humor and memes - mostly memes. Curious, asking questions and using this platform to know more people.
Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social Exploring the circulation of Buddhist material culture in Western historical media, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social.
📜 #buddhasinthewest
🌟 Summer Hiatus 🏖️
Sebastian Nehrdich @snehrdich.bsky.social CTO of the MITRA project @BAIR, UC Berkeley.
Research in ancient Asian low resource languages, especially text reuse, machine translation, semantic similarity search.
Buddhist studies MA, now PhD in computational linguistics @Duesseldorf university.
Elsa Cuillé 崔靄莎 @elsacuille.bsky.social PhD candidate at the EPHE, Paris. Medieval China and Religious Studies. Obsessed with 太平廣記. Rituals and religious practices in anomaly accounts.- W Chuck Wooldridge @wooldridge.bsky.social Sometimes called 吳克強. Historian working on maintenance and repair, Chinese religion, Taiwan, Qing history.
aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Buddhology. Textiness of texts: scriptures, canons, citations, anthologies. He/him/his. 
Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming/Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian, escaped academic, MLIS aspirant, 鏟屎官 (二等). Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644.
http://www.burninghou.se
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social Democratic Socialists of America is the largest and fastest growing socialist organization in the USA. 🌹 Posts are not official statements.
www.dsausa.org
Join today at dsausa.org/join
Teemu Taira @teemutaira.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion. Researching public discourses on religion; atheism and nonreligion; religion and news media; methodology. Author of Taking "Religion" Seriously (2022) and other books.
https://teemutaira.wordpress.com
King Ludd @kingludd.bsky.social Historian, wargamer, miniatures painter.
Lego, classic menswear, scale models, vinylcollecting, heavy metal, music, history, art, boardgames, movies, books.
No Gods No Mayors Podcast @nogodsnomayors.com @postoctobrist.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com, and @raaleh.bsky.social cover every mayor, in order. nogodsnomayors.com
Atsushi Uchida @atsushi-uchida.bsky.social Ancient Japan, read with data.
Historian at Kyushu University | Text mining & Buddhist ritual
Developing Quantitative Historical Source Studies.
Substack👉🏻 https://substack.com/@atsushiuchida
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Worse On Purpose @worseonpurpose.bsky.social Investigating how private equity and brand licensing quietly degrade the products you used to trust.
Mags Visaggio - Writer and Writing Coach for Hire 🏳️⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com new york comics writer lady & musician. lambda literary 2025 nominee. GIRLMODE, KIM & KIM, ETERNITY GIRL, VAGRANT QUEEN. I make music as DAISY & JANE.
Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org An independent news website about trans issues, by trans journalists. assignedmedia.org
Support our work: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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@diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social A review of contemporary criticism
https://www.diacriticsjournal.com/
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
Yashar.substack.com
Twitter: @yashar
IG/Threads @yasharali
岡田育 🍥 Iku Okada @okadaic.bsky.social Writer | Tokyo⇄NYC | she/they 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | retired tweeter 📬 | 오카다이쿠 | #ハジの多い人生 #嫁つも #天国飯と地獄耳 #40歳までにコレをやめる #女の節目は両Ａ面 #我はおばさん | #ハジッコを生きる #のらのらとけものみち | 戦争反対、差別は論外
公式サイト→ https://okadaic.net
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
bookjockeyalex.com
Transgender World @transgenderreport.com 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 News, articles and resources on trans, gender and LGBTQ+ issues curated by Jack Molay. Blogging over at https://www.crossdreamers.com/ Web version of news stream here: https://transgenderreport.com/ Link≠endorsement. Not a bot.
Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social Historian of France, the Atlantic world, language, food. Squirrelly cyclist, slowfooted defenseman, working dad. Worried about the 21st century.
https://utoronto.academia.edu/PaulCohen
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by November 3rd!
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com Jewish, trans, abolitionist name-your-own-price IL lawyer. Forever loving @mistymotors.net. No legal advice; not your lawyer. Free Palestine. She/her.
Mark Histed @markhisted.org Lincoln liberal, 2nd inaugural enthusiast.
Information processing in networks. Brains, models, lasers.
Prev: media policy for democracypolicy.network. All views are my own.
linktr.ee/markhisted
neuro: 🧠 /🧪
muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social Need a content writer? Award-winning columnist seen in Truthdig, Nation, Guardian, Rolling Stone, NBC, TNR. Host of the "It's Christmastown" Hallmark movies podcast with David Roth & "Quaid in Full" with Sarah Bunting. He/Him. Fl.
https://linktr.ee/mobute
Quantian @quantian.bsky.social Locked in and posting regularly on here now
Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social The nation’s first debtors’ union, organizing to build power with debt as leverage. You are not a loan! Press: press@debtcollective.org
Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social This is a police hating and human existence loving account
Whenever I do satire everyone thinks its news and whenever I do news everyone thinks it's satire so good luck with these posts I guess
On Mastodon: Criminalerin.jorts.horse
She/they/guy
johnraff @johnraff.bsky.social Nagoya layabout. Master of nothing in particular. Linux (@bunsenlabslinux.bsky.social), food (元ラッフルズ), languages, gardening, music 第8旅団 ( daihachiryodan.com ) のジョンです。Lot of politics recently...
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social Tokyo-based writer, localizer, cultural consultant. Author of Pure Invention, Yokai Attack, and more.
https://www.mattalt.com/
https://blog.pureinventionbook.com/
https://linktr.ee/mattalt
HumanityExists @humanityexists.bsky.social “Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty, when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.”
~Mahatma Ghandi
“Loyalty to the truth.”
~Susan Abulhawa
TMC🏁 San Diego🌴 Seattle 🗻 New York🏢
MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social She/her. A lawyer, not your lawyer, fighting fraud/waste/abuse in healthcare.
Oxford comma militant.
Childless cat lady.
𝖠̶𝖻̶𝗈̶𝗅̶𝗂̶𝗌̶𝗁̶ ̶𝖨̶𝖢̶𝖤̶ Nuremberg 2.0 is the moderate position.
Views are my own, not my firm’s or my clients’.
CHAPO TRAP HOUSE @chapotraphousereal.bsky.social ❄️⚖️ Will Menaker, Matt Christman, Felix Biederman, and Amber A'Lee Frost Producer: Chris Wade
Hikosaemon @hikosaemon.bsky.social Tokyo based Vlog/Video podcaster & bilingual news geek 東京在住外国人ブロガーです♪ Livestream 10:00pm JST on YouTube every Sunday!
http://www.youtube.com/hikosaemon
Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social - Editor in Chief & Co-Executive Director, @therealnews.com
- Host, Working People podcast
- Author, The Work of Living
- Dad to many cats
Seva @seva.bsky.social book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
Indiana Capital Chronicle @indianacapitalchronicle.com An independent, nonprofit news organization dedicated to giving Hoosiers a comprehensive look inside state government, policy and elections.
Oklahoma Voice @oklahomavoice.com We provide independent, nonpartisan reporting that holds officials accountable and expands knowledge of the political process. Read our content at oklahomavoice.com or subscribe to our newsletter at https://oklahomavoice.com/subscribe.
Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org Women-run nonprofit/nonpartisan newsroom reporting causes, solutions, context since 3/20. Mantra: "Do the right thing and wait."
Give: mfp.ms/donate Props: mfp.ms/impact
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com News from Minnesota and beyond. startribune.com
✅ startribune.com/subscribe
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Pacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is We are an autonomous group of anti-fascist researchers dedicated to providing communities from the Rockies to the Pacific with research and tools to protect themselves from fascism in all its forms.
https://pacantifa.is/
Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social PhD candidate at Georgetown | Researching nukes, IR, Japan, East Asia | Also posting photos of my cat and food.
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social I've been online for 100 years. I believe in people power. I want us all to do better.
She/her. Phillyish. Crone-age. So so late.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. New England then, Minneapolis now, housing and economic justice forever.
Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social Trans theologian and connoisseur of fine heavy music
Co-Editor of Trans Life and the Catholic Church Today (T&T Clark, 2024)
Read my stuff: https://linktr.ee/nicoleteburbach
Can't access my DMs. Opinions are my own
Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
https://linktr.ee/wesleysmorgan
Author of THE HARDEST PLACE (2021)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227894/the-hardest-place-by-wesley-morgan/
Signal: https://tinyurl.com/kzmejtaw
Kenji Ito 伊藤憲二 @kenjiito.bsky.social Historian of Science. Posts are mostly in Japanese. 科学史家．『励起：仁科芳雄と日本の現代物理学』の著者．マッシミアーノ・ブッキ『科学社会学への招待』の訳者の一人．重要なことは印刷物に書くので，ここには書きません．Ｘユーザーのアカウントは気がつき次第リムーブ，ミュート，ブロックすることがあります．
Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social Official account of the world’s largest library. Explore collections & plan a visit. All Library accounts: https://loc.gov/connect
Peter Edmonds @termx.bsky.social My 2 favourite books are "The Last Valley" by Martin Windrow and "A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne. Keen interest in history of Northern Ireland during the Troubles, Falklands war and the battle of Rourke's Drift.
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history.
Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.
Raditya Nuradi. @radityanuradi.bsky.social Ph.D. in Japanese Religions. Scholar of Japan, Religion, and Popular Culture. Project Assistant Professor at the National Museum of Japanese History. 特任助教. 歴博.
New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
https://linktr.ee/newbooksnetwork
Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social Blogger, critic, 2017 and 2025 best fan writer Hugo winner.
Blogs at wrongquestions.blogspot.com and www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Review collection TRACK CHANGES available at briardenebooks.uk/shop/
Member of the 2026 Otherwise Award jury
Studies on Asia @studiesonasia.bsky.social Studies on Asia is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, open-access journal sponsored by the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. The Editors welcome manuscripts on all aspects of Asia across time and place, from social sciences and humanities disciplines.
CEIAS: Central European Institute of Asian Studies @ceias-eu.bsky.social #CEIAS is an #IR and #AsianStudies #ThinkTank dedicated to spreading knowledge about #Asia. Branches in Bratislava, Prague, and Vienna.
Centre for Asian Studies in Africa @casa-up.bsky.social CASA is a new hub for research on Asian Studies and research on Asia-Africa connections at the University of Pretoria.
Current director: Alf Gunvald Nilsen (https://bsky.app/profile/alfnilsen.bsky.social)
UBC Asian Studies @asia.ubc.ca UBC’s Asian Studies Department is the flagship Asian Studies department in Canada and is widely acknowledged as one of the finest in North America.
https://asia.ubc.ca/
Japanese Studies Association of Australia @thejsaa.bsky.social Welcome to the Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA) official Bluesky account.
Contemporary Japan @cj-jrnl.bsky.social Interdisciplinary journal dedicated to leading scholarship on modern and contemporary Japan, peer-reviewed by top scholars in the field. Based @dijtokyo.org
American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social The American Society for Premodern Asia, founded in 1842 as the AOS, promotes research in the languages & literatures of West, Central, South & East Asia, & North Africa, incl. philology, epigraphy, linguistics & material culture. https://www.aspa1842.org